Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-10-08
DOMESTIC.

An entire ban of Indians has been az
rested by civil officers OF Arizona for horse
stealing. The arrests were made without
any resistance.
The National Association of Union tx
Prisoners of War Is holding its fifteenth an
nual meeting IN Chicago. The committee
on pensions submitted a report recommend
ing the amendment of the MOrrii pension
bill so as to provide that all surviving pms
Oners of war snail receive 3 for every day
they were in the hands of the enemy, and be
put upon the pension-rolls at rates graded
according to the length of their captivity.
The New York Central, Erie, and Lake
Shore railroads have finally raised their boy
colt against the Rock Island.
The aldermen of Maiden, Massachusetts,
have let the vacant rooms IN the public
school building in that town to the Roman
Catholics for parOchial school purposes.
Their action causes considerable comment.
Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, a
great-grandson of Henry Grattan, and Mr..
Arthur O'COnnOr, nationalist member of
parliament, viii shortly visit this country on
a begging eXpsdlt n, in the interest of the
Irish league.
A large dynamite cartridge was found at
the door of a mercantile establishment in
OskaloOsa, Iowa. Attached TO the wrapper
was a me- ssage 10 the p opletors ordering
them to close up their business and leave in
thirty days or be blown to HI. 1t is suspect
ed that the outrage was committed for the
purpose of frightening the community into
the employment of large police force.
The Holland budget shows a deficit for
the year of over S5,OOO,OOO.
Tucson, in Arizona, is beginning to boom
the next Indian war. Mr.. w. b. Horton
was killed the other day by an Apache scout;
the bystanders pursued ana killed the savage,
and the report adds, but this will not end
the matter. The citizens viii take the mat
ter IN their own hands and kill Indians on
sight, :" if the government does not interfere.
Later reports say several bands of saYages
have taken to the ''War-path. "
In some of the counties in Michigan the
people are reported to be providing them
selves with local telegraph lines as
substitute for the telephone. which is found
tn be too costly luxury. in one county it
is reported there Is a sort of cooperative
company, owning over thirty miles of WIRE
between terminal points eighteen miles
apart. The wires are carried to farmers
houses villages, etc, and are found to be
convenient and useful.
In Limerick, Ireland, while a squad of
soldiers and police were evlcting Michael
Lane, a tenant, from his building, Mrs.
Lane split the skull of the police inspector
who had charge of the job. The woman
and her husband and brother were arrested.
The nizam of Hyderabad has offered the
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for the construction of defenses on the
northwestern frontier of India.
The empress of Germany has sent the
pope, as jubilee gift, a set of ecclesiastical
vestments said to be the work of her own
hands.
The most astonishing failures OF the sea-
son are those of extensive breweries. Most
people suppose the profits of these concerns
are so large as to render bankruptcy almost
impossible. But one of the largest brewer
les in Philadelphia, the Enterprise, has gone
under with a load of $3.50 COO of liabilities;
assets reported at about 100000. The fail
ure Is charged to a comb nation of other
brewers against the Enterprise.
The commissioner of internal revenue de
MES the story, telegraphed from Washington
the other day, that he intended 70 have the
beer made at all the breWerIes II the country
analysed, in order to ascertain hOwfar adul-
teratiOn with poisonous substances Is prac-
ticed. The commissioner thinks he has moth
ing to do with the quality of the sWill if the
taxes upon its manufacture are regularly
paid.
In the New York democratic convention at
Saratoga, the representation of New York
city was equally divided between Tam
many hall' and the county democracy"
| leaving the Irving hall faction out in the
cold. The platform, as adopted, demands
revision of the tariff and a reduction of $780,
COO.OOO IN the amount of taxes annually
collected. The state and national civil
service laws are approved; the administra-
tions of Governor Hill and President CleVe-
land approved, and ''sumptuary laws in
terfering with the personal liberties and
reasonable habits of any portion of our fell
lOW-cltlZens' reprObated. Charles E. Tabor
was nominated for attorney general: Edward
/ Memple for comptroller, and l.. j.
Fitzgerald for treasurer.
The Massachusetts republicans held their
state convention at Boston, and nominated
/ Oliver Ames for governor; J. Q. A. Brack-
EFT for lieutenant governor: II. b. Pierce
| for secretary; $. w. Beard for treasurer: @.
r. Ladd for auditor, and A. J. Waterman
| for attorney general The platform defends
| the protective tariff; advises revision of the
/ internal revenue lakes to reduce the treasury
surplus; demands liberal appropriations for
| the navy, internal Improvements, e 1ucation,
and pensions: fayors a national bankrupt
| law and cessation of the compulsory silver
coinage and goes in strong for restrictive
| legislation against hQuOr-selling, and
/ prOhibitory amendment of the constitution.
A pension for services in the Mexican war
has been granted to Governor Oglesby, of
/ Illinois